as iran's new president calls for dialogue with the west seeking to ease crippling sanctions the u.k. . while u.s. lawmakers possibile further tightening the penalties. american gave russian vodka protests to the country's lore against homosexual propaganda we sort fact from fiction and what's. a crackdown on gay rights. nearly three hundred people facing imprisonment as a court judgment on an underground network accused of masterminding the revolution let's go to live pictures for you right there it is it's a prison complex with a court inside people assembling on the exterior with police in there as well with

water cannons on the stand by live pictures of the court proceedings here. thank you for joining us on this monday here on our. show you have got your top world headlines let's get straight to him right now iran's new president has called for a dialogue with the west but warned that the language of sanctions just don't work . made this inaugural address after being officially sworn in as the islamic republic's president or the moderate cleric one june vote by promising to put an end to the country's international isolation over its ongoing nuclear energy program but tehran's long awaited steps to ease tensions with the rest of the world are not finding much response from some in the west and. investigates.

iran's new president hassan rouhani is widely seen as a moderate politician particularly significant detail where western leaders are concerned after years of strain diplomatic tensions now in what is seen as an attempt by terror want to ease of that isolation the government had sent out invitations to e.u. countries including britain to withstand to be a swearing in ceremony of rouhani albeit excluding the u.s. and israel now the position was that only tehran a base of diplomats would attend but the u.k. had not sent anyone at all the reasoning given by the british foreign office is that we does not have an embassy in tehran but this has been criticized by members of the opposition labor party here particularly of the shadow foreign minister douglas alexander had called this a misjudgment as well as a missed opportunity adding about diplomacy involves meeting with people with whom you disagree how in light of the steps up for that to run appears to be taking it

moving this invitation to european leaders as well as appointing a foreign minister with positive relations with washington as some are reading it's really wanting to rebuild those relations with the us and europe well we spoke with labor m.p. barrie gardiner for more on this the u.k. foreign minister william hague he had said we will respond in good faith to positive action by iran and improve relations on the supply so basis without remark shouldn't this invitation to attend the president's inauguration in iran have been accepted and i think it would have been a very good opportunity to say look he starts with almost a clean sheet as far as we're concerned we want to take him as we find him and it would have been a good opportunity therefore to go to have informal discussions around the inauguration. and to do some sounding. to how he was going to behave in

office so i think it's an opportunity missed. i hope that there are back channel conversations going on that are beginning to try and work out a new relationship with what is after all a new president at the end of the day in this very careful dance between tehran and a western leaders every action and non-action will certainly play a part in that equation on where relations are really headed reporting from london and test ourselves. and the main challenge that house on the two army faces as the new president is easing the economic sanctions that are grinding hard on the iranian people over the past two years the country has faced its toughest most comprehensive western penalties to date the most painful have been punitive measures by the us and e.u. targeting iran's oil exports its trade and its banking sector as well ultimately crippling the country's economy in two thousand and twelve alone iran is thought to have lost at least fifty billion dollars in oil revenues and the resulting economic

recession has caused a significant rise in prices for the basic necessities bread milk and meat in fact the country's medical institutions now claiming those sanctions make it difficult for millions of people with serious health problems to obtain the drugs they need in fact reported last year six million iranians suffering from diseases such as multiple sclerosis hemophilia and cancer could not access the medicine they so desperately need it. now despite signals from iran's new leadership washington for its part has shown no inclination it will abandon any sanctions on the contrary just days before the army's doing inauguration u.s. lawmakers passed another bill toughening them the bill would see iran's oil exports slashed by another million barrels per day jamelle abdi from the national iranian american council he says some in washington are frankly more interested in a war with iran rather than trying to find any solution to the nuclear issue. the

fact that they would vote for new sanctions before the new iranian president who has been saying positive things and who is going to himself face so many obstacles for the house of representatives to go forward with this vote demonstrates that this is a chamber dominated by politics instead of pragmatism and is dominated by ideology instead of. an actual desire to resolve the problems that. lay before the united states now the reason that they went forward with this vote was because of immense political pressure from pro sanctions groups and neo conservative and hawkish organizations that are more interested in seeing a war with iran than seeing a diplomatic resolution to the nuclear standoff. now iran's proven to have an easy relations not only with the west but also with many countries in the middle east tensions with saudi arabia came into focus recently after an incident with the president of sudan's plane that was heading for tehran that were then stopped from

entering the gulf kingdoms and space independent researcher and writer. and she explained earlier how saudi arabia might indeed be benefiting from the conflicts in the region. historically saudi arabia has been iran's rival more importantly than that and it's the side from the fact that saudi arabia serves the united states and israel and carries that through or does in the region and saudi arabia if should there ever be peace with iran. coming from the west it would really threaten saudi repeat it feels very secure for as long as it can be of service to the united states saudi arabia benefits from war and conflict in the region so there's no reason for them to change and this is smart enough to know that down the line is that to be there that they're not going to be accepted no matter how hard they work for israel and america no matter how steve who is housed in how will they carry out

do or do and work with them they will not be want to and eventually. their time will come to. an r.t.s. or sophie shevardnadze discussed what's in store for iran under the new president with everyone is pretty obsessive of course with the ahmadinejad's among other issues or the end of me did focus on tyrone's controversial nuclear program and specifically recent allegations made by the israeli prime minister that iran is pursuing an arsenal of two hundred nuclear warheads so if you use a full program coming your way later today for the meantime though here on r.t. a quick preview. look there's that we iraq is going to have two hundred warheads that's what he says yes. this is something that i've said many times before but you it is not of any use to us to have nukes to. use it i mean nuclear weapons is the word to use this. century.

it's just one in ten minutes past the hour here in moscow it's r t with me rule research russian vodka down the drain that's the latest protest move against what's seen in the west as russia's crackdown on gay rights activists in the u.s. and europe have been out for a shoot a new law against quote propaganda of homosexuals to minors the name often shortened by the media to the ominous russian anti gay law they are also being caused to boycott the soft she winter olympics to which moscow has said the law will not affect guests or participants in fact as supporters of the law argue that it's actually up hold the views of the majority of russians let's dig up some stats for you here on c.n.n. and see if that's accurate at all latest survey carried out by russia's independent

love-r. institution here showing that the overwhelming majority of russians are closely divided between seeing it as a perversion or a bad habit or as a condition gained as a result of psychological trauma only twelve percent believe it's a sexual orientation as good as any other interesting to know that the same poll regularly conducted over the past fifteen years basically running almost identical results these right here are the stats going back to nineteen ninety eight perhaps something the figures there that contradict the western media as claims of a sharp rise in anti-gay sentiment due to this whole propaganda law well it's a turn over now to watch these and he said he makes an attempt to dissect the problem. there is. no stoli no sochi. dumping russian vodka and calls to boycott the olympic games the l g b t community in the west is furious with the passing of

a new russian law banning gay propaganda to minors a detail almost never mentioned lot of here putin signed a law and some very strict anti-gay measures these laws absolutely obscure they're not clear in what they mean of course it will not have a wide ranging gretzky's of being applied everywhere and to everyone and members of the gay community have been attacked and arrested you cannot say that there is massive suppression or messi of attacks against gay people in the streets and that wherever you say that you're gay you will be killed or beaten russian gay activists are taking their case to the european court of human rights and say the law is meant to target specific individuals but see that picture of gay life in russia from abroad is warped these pictures being shown and being portrayed just because this little became a symbol of a protest against the suppression of l.g.b.

community in russia supporters of the law argue it represents the russian majority . if there is a large number of people who believe the law is too soft thirty years ago there was criminal punishment for being here if you take examples from some states in the u.s. the relationship is much cooler and stricter than these propaganda law was. it's important to remember this law is about gay propaganda to minors and it will be enforced with fines not criminal punishment russia is still a very traditional conservative country it wants to hold on to that. this is one of moscow's many day and night clubs yes it's in a discreet location but it holds three thousand people is. on the weekends and it's full of foreigners it's owners asked us not to film on the inside to protect the privacy of its clients but reassure us business is booming there's a happy arriving excitable you know wonderful gay community which is great martin

andrews is british openly gay and living in russia for eight years he opposes the law but won't be dumping his russia is dominated by the church in general far more than the u.k. i think if you compare america for example you can't look for. new york and then look at the middle part of texas and that's what russia is especially moscow you've got the old meets the new and you've got soviet mindset he's with the with excise to the west lifestyle homosexuality is illegal in over seventy countries across the globe so martin asked why russia why do the western media why do people and the west never mention the world cup is coming up going crazy about lympics i was in such a last week filming a gay community that there's a great. but the west has a b. and it's on it regarding russia it's. a great chance to go and he's now a r.t.

moscow. are still to come for you this hour here on. this because apparently the meteor that made an enlightened. seem to have had some friends now they may be late to the party but they are still planning to attend just a few minutes here on the program including. mass surveillance in the crosshairs in the united states protesters hit the streets on mass calling for a full stop to the big brother watch still being conducted every day by the government all that and a lot more after the break. pleasure

to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm researcher. first street. and i think. foreigners.

it's a lot from moscow with me rule re sushi thanks for joining us today after a trial last in more than five years almost three hundred people in turkey will finally discover their fate today and they're accused of belonging to an underground network which was prompting a military coup but the case of spot concern and whether exposing the illegal movement was perhaps simply a witch hunt that says show you some live pictures right here on out see this is just outside the celebrity complex west of istanbul it's where the final verdicts are expected to be delivered now it will be a closed session but people are gathering outside to support those on trial and you can see a massive a presence of riot police here if they would just out of the picture a moment ago the water cannons are here as well. apparently authorities are expecting this to get ugly just outside the prison complex housing the courtroom again these are live pictures for you here on r t the celebrity complex west of istanbul let's turn it over now to our she's been closely following the events.

allegedly it's a large scale nationalistic movement which involves some of the this is the country's most top ranking army officials festers journalists prime minister erdogan has said that she is ready to stamp out this and to democratic movement which he said has been brewing in the country for decades a lot of people have fallen under that umbrella but people here say that essentially they're going to call on is just to be tense under which the prime minister is being done in jail so as to get rid of all dissenting voices these trial has been released and it ends with the expected from the beginning expect it . will be no surprise no one. and it will be the end of trust you know don's government for a lot of people and it is also the end of the judicial system of turkey this is happening after large scale protests have broken out in the country spreading from istanbul all over this state where people who are disagreeing with policies all the

prime minister have taken to the streets all of these protests have been widely dispersed in fact it does look at this point like protests are happening are turning almost on a weekly basis and get they get broken out by police who are using tear gas and water cannons to this has also been the case in the stumble this weekend as a matter of fact as well so people here really are expecting some skirmishes to break out between the supporters of those who they believe were wrongly accused of participation in this alleged plots to overthrow the government and of course the police. we're going to go right there for us so you can check out how twitter she's doing a lot of posts recently to keep all of us up to date on exactly what's going on media estimates of the security men could be in the thousands they've brought. water cannons with them to the court building just in case things get out of hand well wouldn't be surprising at all that region as you know a lot of craziness recently especially with gezi park in istanbul stories. website

right now for the meantime though let's talk about a big boy and his friends the panic and havoc seen in the russian urals last winter when a meteor or the size of a house exploded in the skies well we may be set for a repeat do you remember this. thank. you no that was something very big bright that a colossal blow triggered a speculation ranging from some sort of a missile attack or possibly to that of the apocalypse though the issue is that scientists are now saying that huge rock may not have been flying solo as far as thought but rather part of a group of asteroids which still pose a threat to lindsay frauds and joins us here on the program to give us the latest

on this. oh she will be panicking should they be cut you also what do we know it's going to suddenly allegedly have all the rocks behind it that's being coming on its way to earth yes that is according to a new study just out scientists say it was so hard to believe that the the asteroid and then meteor went undetected so they're leaving no stone unturned even in disguise and it turns out by by running sort of simulations orbital simulations they came across a family of asteroids known as the apollo asteroid family now that does not sound intimidating i don't know what is the apollo asteroid family apparently is a cluster of two hundred metre wide cluster of rocks that broke up around forty thousand years ago now scientists say that this cluster is still at large in orbit around the sun and we may need to watch out for the impacts of these so-called siblings of the family because. these rocks are on

a similar orbital path as the chelyabinsk meteorite however they do say don't panic just yet because well they are still orbiting the gravitational pull of the various planets could knock them off course and they are not on a direct collision course with earth but just knowing that this well known family of asteroids it's been documented since two thousand and eleven. and this this asteroid family is two hundred meters wide and it's got a lot of fragments in there so the fear is that for some reason if any of these these this orbital path we're on a collision course course with earth what would then have to take place now the best way to find out if this chelyabinsk meteorite actually came from this family is to go up there and take a core sample which is hugely expensive scientists will not be doing that any time soon but they will continue to monitor this and then you know as we could find out that they're going to send bruce willis up there to you know dynamite the thing and

blasted off its path you never know well that bruce bruce willis has allegedly saved the world at least a couple of times most know lindsay i was thinking you know if we want to track exactly where these rocks are and when they're going to impact you know who we should call to the n.s.a. . that would be if they know everything else about what's going on if they can't get there on a couple of rocks you know lindsey france thank you thanks for the panic as well. all right well it's good to have you with us here on r.t. i'm researcher thanks for joining us today many many more stories coming your way including flagging up resentment american rockers the bloodhound going to leave russia this after being beaten and showered in tomatoes have a look here it's the bassist provoking outrage he takes the russian flag stuffs it down the front of his drawers and then the what pulls out the back nice smooth dude . plus at least a fifteen crimes per day committed in the us there with the blessing of the very agency that was designed to protect the people dot com we got the bloodhound gang story and this one right here about the secret tactics of the f.b.i.

. the meantime on our to the u.s. still reeling from edward snowden's revelations of the n.s.a. snooping surveillance of scores of people took to the streets across the country to protest against domestic spying and the violation of privacy so i want to use and i started a truck and she went to march with the demonstrators to find out exactly what their demands. so that's. really the bottom that i did the auction in over a dozen cities across the west inspired by george orwell's novel nineteen eighty-four an anti utopia written over half a century ago about mass surveillance so frightening it sends shivers down a reader spine these protesters say apparently the u.s. government has been using it as a manual theme of this one is about the surveillance and the fourth amendment you know we're losing our country because of it i'm really sad about that this is one of the many demonstrations conducted i have manged americans are out on to the

streets to demand their wives right back what do you think pretty specific way you guys can do about syria and i mean do you think this boys can be eventually arrested this is one part of the process right here marching on the streets raising awareness for calling congressmen letting them know that this is not something that we stand for and it should not be done in our name problem of course because our very people with the help of a thirty year old former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden that we are national security agency was has been conducting sleeping bags and so on millions of americans and foreigners around the world and these people are now marching in the streets of new york to say they want to get in touch with the story of this is again this is collecting information of every american regardless of whether they're suspected of doing wrong or about any bridges stationary illegal there's going to everyone's information and the fourth amendment says if they care to get a patient that was ever reason to believe that you are have committed a crime i'm very concerned about the value of surveillance that is not performed by

the national security administration we know more and more about what's going on but we still don't understand a lot of the technical details underlying it protesters are now chanting outside eighty in t's office is one of many companies that the n.s.a. was able to retract information from about u.s. citizens phone. calls being made messages being sent the length of the phone calls being made as well as where the people were speaking all of these major concerns for u.s. citizens now coming onto the streets basically tell the government that they've had enough and they will not stop coming out to protest until their mace message is heard we are outraged we're outraged that wish still learning to what extent all of our contacts i telephone calls are. being shat online are being monitored and we're not happy with this these protests urbanised by a group called the story of the war grassroots up privacy rights movement that is

demanding the restoration of the fourth amendment to the us constitution that prohibits reasonable seizure and searches all these people are now on the streets most because they say the ones government is really not been playing this role the way it should and has forgotten about the rights of its citizens is this if you're going to. be. on a very short break here on to the next as our special report called behold life live from moscow to talk to you thank you for joining us. wow revolutions in the middle east sure get a great deal of coverage what you don't mix a lot of sense revolutions or exciting t.v.

peaceful protests or nice but footage of moloch tough cocktails flying and crazed crowds of local middle easterners really grab attention so there's a logical next reason why some protest movements get a lot of coverage in the mainstream media well others kind of don't please forgive me for being conspiratorial but there is one revolution going down which does have all the exciting visuals of the arab spring but just doesn't get any of the mainstream coverage in fact unarmed people in this country recently stormed the parliament trapping ministers and lawmakers with that they held them down for eight hours demanding the government resign until police with shields smash their way through creating a narrow corridor through which the officials could escape now that sounds like exciting and visual news but why did you hear about it all over the mainstream press that's because it didn't happen in libya or egypt or any other exotic country but in good old vogue area right in the e.u. where u.s. and e.u. interests are best served by the status quo being maintained there is no need to hype up an intervention or kinetic action in bulgaria the only time you ever hear

about the need for a crackdown in bulgaria is when a government there actually started working in bulgaria own interests and not the us desires but that's just my opinion. the population of pakistan totals one hundred eighty million and it's still growing in lahore love there are ten million people clean drinking water is in short supply . for nestle introduced pure lies bottled water was

a rare sight in pakistan. now nestle dominates a vast market that it created itself i grew up in a city where you could go just about anyone else but you also water and you would get a glass of water for free without any fear of its quality or it sounds and what's happened over the last ten to fifteen years i mean in my own consciousness is that i have seen and witnessed a replacement of drinking water a commodification of drinking water. i would say that it's nestle that's done it it's been a confluence of factors nestle appeared on the scene it started providing your life drinking water and all of a sudden coca-cola shows up that's the shows up and then a whole bunch of private local manufactured water school shows up as well all producing clean water clean water because of the terribly old and creaky infrastructure the sanitation authority and then before you know it everywhere you go if you ask for a glass of water i have to be fifteen of these.